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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / How do you obtain the scale of a SPARK particle?

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Chris Tate
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Posted: 15th Nov 2013 15:34
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The thread for the plugin is now locked, so will try to contact the developer of the plugin, but I may as well ask here also since some people use it.

How do you obtain the scale of a SPARK particle? There is command for setting the scale, but not getting it if the scale is controlled internally.

Some commands in the plugin are undocumented.

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Rudolpho
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Posted: 15th Nov 2013 18:53
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You can try opening the dll with notepad and search for the name of a known function. It will have no whitespaces and start with a questionmark, most likely utilizing camel case, but its easiest to not searh for it with case matching.
After you find it there should be a list of all exported functions in the dll at regular intervals around there. It is a bit round-about but you could find undocumented functions that way, maybe there is something for reading the scale there.


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Chris Tate
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Posted: 15th Nov 2013 22:05
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Hey, that was a cool idea; something I should try more often. After doing what you recommended I did not find such a function. I also found that the SP Scale Particle function does not work either; although you can scale the particles using the spark interpolators.

At least you can retrieve their current position and colour; but it would have been nice to be able to get their scale, not to mention their life.

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